Dana Loesch was hatin’ on Ron Paul 2nite for being the 1 in a 411-1 vote on a resolution to boo hoo over Haiti. (Oh no? Does this mean she’s gonna take away some of his cool points?)
At first, I thought that it was nothing more than RP’s natural instinct merely to vote no because everyone else is voting yes. However, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that there just might be more than resolutions in this resolution, that there’s a poison pill that’s gonna cost you.
I was thinking about my possible upcoming move to the Chicago area.
When I first got the call for that interview in Downers Grove, and then for the one in Springfield, the first thing that came to my mind was that I have taken the occasion of so many posts on this medium to bash and trash Chicago, ChiCONGO, Chicagograd, Abraham Lincoln, Adolph Lenin, and everything about Illinois north of Springfield, and yet I might live in suburban Chicago or in Springfield.
I’m having second thoughts. Maybe Chicago would be good for me.
A few years ago, someone called the Michael Savage show and asked rhetorically, “What would Voltaire have been without his Paris?” What he meant by that is that Voltaire’s writings were so memorable because eighteenth century Paris was so full of two-timing two-faced rank hypocrisy and elitism that a sarcastic personality such as his fed off of it to formulate ideas about civil liberties that are still relevant today, just as irritation within a mollusk is necessary to create a pearl. The caller’s point was that just as Volitaire was a great writer because of “his Paris,” Michael Savage has a great talk show because of “his San Francisco.” IOW, Savage’s Dutch Uncle personality has a field day in a city like his San Francisco, with all its crazy liberalism.
So I’m asking myself: Can Chicago be to me what San Francisco is to Michael Savage and Paris was to Voltaire?
Thankfully, Arlen Specter’s Days In Power Are Numbered. And By “Numbered,” I Mean Fewer Than 365.
Specter to Michelle Bachmann: “Beyotch, get yo’ ass back in the kitchen. And since I got junk between my legs, don’t you dare interrupt me when I’m speaking.”
Now I’m glad he jumped parties. This could have been the Republicans’ crap sandwich right about now.
I just happen to have some experience with a number of people, who, like Arlen Specter, vocally insist on not being interrupted when they are speaking, and they make this demand repeatedly, as if it were a life’s obsession. Or as if whatever they have to say is so much more worthy of hearing than what anyone else thinks.
If past performance is an indicator of future results, then I think I can tell you a few other things about Mr. Specter. I’m sure that not everything that follows is true about him, but I bet I would bat better than .500.
(1) He thinks he knows everything there is to know…
(2) But he doesn’t know half of what he thinks he knows.
(3) When he actually does encounter someone that actually knows more than he does, he gets horribly insecure, and reacts to such a person as being a “know it all,” “jerk,” “pompous,” or “a blowhard,” though in that case, it’s a pot kettle black thing or a projection thing.
(4) He thinks there are very few people actually smarter than he is, and he thinks the odds of his meeting such a person are low. Out of the other side of his mouth, he tells you that holds the intelligence of the average person in high regard.
(5) He’s verbally (though probably not physically) abusive toward his wife, indicative of his misogyny re Michelle Bachmann. Ironically, he’s been dependent on some woman his whole life, and, by his own admission, he would fall apart without one.
(6) He’s a master of manipulation and deceit, and as such…
(7) He gets his jollies off from exercising absolute power, to the extent that he can, but would turn right around and tell you he’s not that kind of person or has or wants that kind of power.
(8) Where #7 confounds him is when he wants to be someone’s boss and friend simultaneously, and they don’t have the ability to do both, like most people don’t. Ironically, he has no real friends of the platonic variety himself. He can’t have them, because he envisions life in a purely Weberian paradigm, where people are only either sucking off someone else or getting sucked off.
(9) Just as vocally and audaciously as he doesn’t want you to interrupt his speaking, he also demands that you take a load in the face from him, figuratively speaking. And he demands gratitude from others, when it should be an unspoken but self-evident means of reciprocation. He’ll demand gratitude and complain about your not giving it to him even if you actually did give it. But it’s not really gratitude he wants, it’s a blow job.
(10) But if someone asks him to suck up, that person might as well be Satan incarnate. He will occasionally give the gratitude that he demands of others, to his credit, but far outweighing his occasional “thank you” is a lot of screaming and yelling.
(11) The kinds of people he actually does suck up to are small potatoes in life’s grocery store. But he is attracted to such “small potatoes” because of one thing and one thing only: Money. He might seem to suck up to worthy people, but see #14 below. Once such a worthy person dies or is out of his life, they’ll tell you what they really thought of that person. However, the small potato with money will be Forever Divine.
(12) The only things people are supposed to care about are things he cares about. Those who care about something that he doesn’t, or don’t care about something he does, are, in his worldview, a curiosity, an anomaly, mentally ill, stupid, or somehow less than human. Ironically, if someone cares about the same thing he does but does it even more intensely or fanatically, then that person is a “whackjob,” “psychotic,” or “insane.”
(13) The things that he really does care about are trivial in the greater scheme of things, such as sports.
(14) He’s a bigger gossip monger than any ten women combined.
(15) Pursuant to #14, he’s addicted to talking about people behind their backs, all the while he makes himself out to be a the world’s foremost master of the delicate art of human relations.
(16) Complains about everything. If there were nothing wrong in his life, he would complain about the sky being blue.
(17) He probably has some secret fetish towards a dictatorial regime, such as Stalin or Hitler, and makes as many excuses as they can about such a regime to everyone he can, up to a point to where doing more would be politically inexpedient. Oh no, Nazis or Communists aren’t morally wrong, it’s just that praising them in public isn’t expedient.
And finally, because of #17, (18) Don’t give a bastard like him an inch of real power, or he’ll take a mile.
One might think that Michelle Bachmann was a little rude in her contretemps with Specter. But given the Hobson’s Choice between rudeness and conceit, I’ll pick rude all the time.
So we had to outsource all our jobs to China because they created pollution here. The result? No jobs here, but we still go the pollution. Good deal :|
Why can’t they help the Haitian economy? Be unbigoted — Don’t hog all these economy-helping Haitians for our own racist country. Let Haiti have some, too.
Domestic agents could be used in ‘shaping an environment before a conflict’
A newly released Rand Corporation report proposes the federal government create a rapid deployment “Stabilization Police Force” that would be tasked with “shaping an environment before a conflict” and restoring order in times of war, natural disaster or national emergency.
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Although the report by the federally funded think tank spends most of its pages on overseas deployment, civil libertarians wonder if the proposed unit will only focus on foreign operations.
Kelly confirmed the force could be deployed in the United States.
“If there were a major disaster like Katrina it could be deployed in the U. S. but that’s not the purpose of the research,” he said.
Gee, I wonder if there are any entities other than the U.S. Army that could “restore order in times of war, national disaster or national emergency.”
Local police forces? Nope. They’re handcuffed by civil rights laws.
The National Guard? 10-7 to that. They’re all over in Crapistan trying to spread democracy to illiterate camel jockeys who couldn’t spell the word much less understand the concept.
WASHINGTON–Mayor Richard M. Daley made a robust pitch for job creation today, proposing that businesses that create and guarantee good-paying jobs with benefits for life be exempt from paying federal taxes.
“You cannot take the old playbook and try to play the game today,” he said at the opening of the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meetings, which run through Friday.
Geezo. I wonder whose political machine gave birth to Barack Obama’s political career. Could it be? Naaah. That would be too hypocritical of him. If, as F. Scott Fitzgerald said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, Insanity 2010 is pushing out the same kind of machine cogs over and over again and then wondering why they they all look and act the same.
As for his tax proposal, perhaps he could exempt the people holding such jobs created in the City of Chicago from taxes that Chicago actually collects? Oddly enough, Chicago does not have a city income or earnings tax, but its sales tax rate is one of the highest around, and I’m sure real estate/personal property taxes are rather dear. Clean your own mess before you barge into someone else’s back yard asking them to clean theirs. Perhaps Mr. Daley thinks that he does have power with in the Federal Government, because his totey now has his hands on the Big Red Button.
